The Little Yellow Digger is brought in to the local primary school to dig a swimming pool. Unfortunately the Little Digger hits a water main, almost drowning the Principal in the process. Since the school is now without water the students are packed off to the nearby beach for th...e afternoon, much to their delight. While they are away, the council workers fix the problem and the Little Yellow Digger goes on to finish the hole for the new pool. But everyone remembers the day the digger came to school.Read more

Based on New Zealand's all-time favourite digger. Peter Gilderdale has worked with his mother's series of stories and his father's familiar art, from the much-loved original Little Yellow Digger range to produce an all-new rhyming story in this handsome lift-the-flap alphabet boo...k.Read more

'Throughout her childhood she was making up stories. Before she could write she drew them. By the time she was seven she knew she wanted to write books. Margaret Mahy was a wizard of words and a spinner of magical stories. She was New Zealand's best known author for children, wro...te more than 200 books and often appeared in a purple wig or a penguin suit while she delighted audiences with vivacious readings of her stories. But who was Margaret Mahy? What was she like as a child? How did she become a writer? Where did her weird and wonderful ideas come from?"--Publisher's website.Read more

In the next door garden they were digging out a drain when the weather turned quite nasty and it poured and poured with rain. When digging out a drain, the little yellow digger gets stuck in the mud. So they bring in a bigger digger...Since the publication of the first story more... than 20 years ago. the much-loved stories about the Little Yellow Digger have spanned generations of readers to become classics. All five stories have been compiled in this delightful treasury collection, which features a special word from the author, 20-plus years down the track!Read more

When digging out a drain, the little yellow digger gets stuck in the mud. So they bring in a bigger digger... Is it a DIGSAW? No, it's a Little Yellow Digger JIGSAW! Build your very own jigsaw puzzle of this much-loved, hard-working little digger.